Stock Kernel

Mainline Kernel

About

jonli447 and lb_worm were trying to create a patch for the vanilla kernel [2] so we could use the kernel.org sources for the arm9-buffalo-boxes easily. But the guys from Marvell have done a great job in doing that so the nas-central community have stopped efforts in doing that to focus on helping with the Marvell's git. Marvell's code was merged into 2.6.25 with the latest development going into the Orion repository which has been merged into mainline.

At this time (12/21/2008) the kernel (2.6.28-rc9) supports:

Buffalo Terastation Pro II/Live

Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Live

Buffalo Linkstation Mini

Linksys WRT350N v2

Technologic Systems TS-78xx

LaCie Ethernet Disk mini V2

Maxtor Shared Storage II

Netgear WNR854T

Marvell Orion-VoIP GE Reference Design

Marvell Orion-VoIP FXO Reference Design

Marvell Orion-1-90 AP GE Reference Design

The Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Revogear Kurobox Pro support (MV88F5182)

The Marvell Orion-2 (MV88F5281) Development Board

The OrionNAS Reference Design board (MV88F5182)

The D-Link DNS-323 board (MV88F5181)

The QNAP TS109/209/409 boards (MV88F5182 & MV88F5281)

The HP Media Vault mv2120

Containing support for devices:

The NAND Flash controller

The SATA controller

The Ethernet controller

The USB controller

The PCI controller

The GPIO controller

The Serial Port controller

The I2C controller

XFS has had problems on arm for a long time. Two patches [3][4] have improved the situation but there is still one problem remaining [5].

The things that are not yet supported :

The CESA hardware engine is not yet supported (usefull for cryptographic and security operations)

The XOR hardware engine is not yet supported (usefull for iSCSI or RAID5 operations)

Compilation & Installation Instructions

Install either a native or cross toolchain. Cross-compiling with the codesourcery toolchain (2007q3) is reccomended. If your cross compile machine runs Debian, or similar, you can use the cross compilation toolchain repository supplied by Emdebian. Gentoo users may use sys-devel/crossdev.

Download mkimage to somewhere in your path. Gentoo users may get it by emerging dev-embedded/u-boot-tools, Debian has a package named uboot-mkimage.

Ensure you have the devio command installed (sys-block/devio in Gentoo).